This Terrible One Legged Jumping Tank Almost Existed... So I Built One!

Welcome to another episode of Trailmakers! Today I am trying to recreate the Wallace Leaping Tank! It was an actual design proposed in 1942 for a one-legged circular tank that could theoretically hop across a battlefield. This idea is just dumb enough to warrant a recreation on my channel
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In the toughest motoring expedition in the universe, you and your friends will build your own vehicles to cross a dangerous wasteland. Explore, crash horribly, use your wits to build a better rig, and get as far as you can with whatever spare parts you find on your way.
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Trailmakers is even more fun if you play it with other people. Build cool vehicles and compete in mini-game modes with your friends or other Trailmakers online. Build a helicopter, send it to your friend, and shoot them out of the sky. Put two seats on a tank, and let your friend control the turret. As we get further in Early Access development Expedition Mode will also be adapted to multiplayer.
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[@janmuller-yu4nf]

Hilarious multiplayer battle idea: Every player is given the basic jumping leg mechanism and builds their tank aroud it. I want to see like four of these things just jumping around and shooting at each other, the level of silliness would be insane.

[@Coolboi2009]

i'm glad scrapman is doing these again, it's pretty funny to see how these blueprints even exist

[@tinytruck2108]

this is one of my favorite series! kinda hope revisits some of the planes since the airborne update dropped

[@tracepratt1969]

Same. Between learning about all of the ridiculous designs throughout history as well as watching Scrapman hysterically attempt to recreate them with the severe limitations of Trailmakers. Great content for sure! Keep it up Scrapman!

[@DanyF02]

You should add balloons in there to counteract its weight to make landing smoothly easier. You should probably also ad springs on the body itself too since that's what takes the brunt of the landing since the leg escapes into the body instantly.

[@chillieuwu]

Friction pads..

[@DanyF02]

@@chillieuwu Elaborate?

[@chillieuwu]

@@DanyF02 friction pads dont fracture when introduced to kenetic strain.

[@DanyF02]

@@chillieuwu Well the stuff above them still breaks so how does that help?

[@sammyhre3516]

okay after seeing this and looking back at scrap's previous videos on odd and obscure battle vehicles I had an idea for a new multiplayer challenge the challenge is that each player has to base their creation on an old, obscure, and/or impractical in real life war machine that has or could have existed at some point in history. I got this idea because I think it would be funny and interesting to see the rest of the gang deal with building and driving/piloting these garbage vehicles themselves alternatively they could choose to try to modify one of scrap's preexisting creations from this series to see if they can do better

[@Jamoni1]

Next update needs to be a TON of curved and angled pieces.

[@gabrielsxo]

we really need a 1x1 angele piece

[@Friendly_Neighborhood_Dozer]

And reworked collision boxes in build mode. some blocks take up way too much space. A "Builder's Update" in General would be awesome.

[@EamonOLeary]

@@gabrielsxowe need 1x8 angles way more 😀

[@noobsplaybest6883]

We need 2x8 pieces 1x1 pieces

[@nightswitchmusic6419]

@@noobsplaybest6883 we are never getting a 1x1...... ever

[@DaShikuXI]

I feel like maybe an internal gimbal jet or something would have helped with making the landing more consistent.

[@user-fb9er5zh5v]

The gimble thrusters could help with cushioning the landing a bit more

[@alexorsmthnidk2449]

This would be awesome as an mm challenge, no thrusters or engines, just hopping

[@mardek503]

Frog race? FROG RACE!

[@JoshuaGanoTyraxLightning]

And there's plenty of hopping critters to choose from... Frogs/Toads, Rabbits, Deer, Kangaroos...

[@crazykid67034]

Yesssss, I've missed these videos! Had no idea I'd be wanting a leaping tank until now though

[@logangarnes5671]

Same

[@leosspace1630]

the bending in half VTOL that you looked at several yers ago would fly like a dream with the gyros

[@skinnyboy2704]

Now i want to see a tank battle with this

[@Chosen1Creator]

I think making the tank a smaller diameter to reduce complexity and weight would help. Also adding suspension to the part of the body that hits the ground after the leg contracts.

[@chrisgordon4949]

The whole second half of the video I was yelling "Add suspension to the body bottom!" lol (Suspension does take up a lot of complexity though, and it might not have been possible.)

[@--cook--]

it looks like you have enough space inside to add some balloons, if you can free up the complexity. you can set them to inflate with the jumping sequence to reduce the tank's weight, and prevent it from destroying itself!

[@rcbrudis6796]

Teardown got an update scrapman needs to see this

[@-R-E-D-]

You can lower session gravity in session options, you should try the tank doing that

[@danieldidonato7957]

I wonder if shield on the bottom of the foot would help keep it from breaking. All in all, awesome build!

[@alexanderwinter5988]

no, shields dont protect you from physical things. ONLY projektiles

[@Dooperbooperlooper]

@@alexanderwinter5988technically it will protect the foot, but only once

[@notthatbad42]

Scrapman: makes a POGO tank Also scrapman: why is it so inconsistent???

[@golden.raja_]

hey scrapman, it would be cool to see some of the older "your best builds" as the wheel bug is fixed now and they might work better

[@Inset_tomato]

Finally, a return to strange historical builds

[@TheGreatAshenOne]

I can't wait for the inevitable hopping creation battle

[@edgarviernes2532]

Multiplayer suggestion: Do bombers vs defenders but the bombers have dynamite in them and the defenders use emp to explode them

[@Robonoob_per]

Finally u make recreation content again this is very amazing thank you

[@serpentinious7745]

YES! My first thought after learning of this thing a couple months ago was, "I hope Scrapman tries to build this." I'm so happy 😁

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

Bro it wouldve been absolutely terrifying seeing that thing charge at you while jumping and shooting 😳😂

[@WhitzWolf92]

Terrifying, and hilarious.

[@randomaccount-rw3bm]

I’m so happy he made this!

[@TypeZeta2]

It’s really cool… in theory. But in practice it seems like I would see it being violently uncomfortable. And easy to destroy

[@genericuser984]

"your concussion has been found to be unrelated to your time in service"

[@embergamedev]

Yup, sounds like the VA lol

[@DrGzhero]

"I did not think the issue was going to be the foot" I know this is the game but looking at the real life design and I was like, "That foot is gonna break" LOL.

[@endoflyer1201]

What if you used balloons in the tank to provide lift decreasing the force on the foot?

[@benfletcher8100]

You should do either a plane battle on the space bound planets in their atmosphere or try doing a Walker mech battle with the lads (bipedal, quadrupedal etc.)

[@ninjagamer1686]

This is a really good idea but I think they should insted of bomb bays have the dynamite be the bombs

[@IanTron1]

You could try to use some gimbal jets to try to soften the landing

[@AtlasCreates]

Hello scrapman! I had a multiplayer idea that is kinda related to this concept. You get a base where its just the jumping mechanism and the goal it to build a tank kind of thing with the guns getting progressively bigger (smart cannon, machine gun and mini gun) and the goal is to disable the other tanks.

[@bluestonecreepr]

Loved this video, the design is really satisfying. Would love to see more like this!

[@breedlofam]

Tuned gimbals to slightly slow the tank down would likely fix the breaking.

[@stabojert]

I think the plan with this one was the enemy to die from laughter. Turns out laughing does the opposite though...

[@moroblizniak4457]

11:01 Yea, i wish TM had more options... For example, Robocraft2(Still work in progress tho) has ability to drag EVERY building block in any direction, you can do crazy stuff with it and its not that hard to learn. Doing this half dome shape would be so easy... I would KILL for this system in Trailmakers.

[@Diamond6760]

I’m glad your doing these again

[@thomasmclean9406]

Yaaay it's back! Missed this series!

[@episode1708]

I like the new music in the background 😍 Btw love your solo videos soooooo much! Pls never stop! ♥️

[@mako8643]

Pure insanity! Love it!

[@zirocannady9630]

maybe a couple of cheeky gimbal jets connected to the distance sensors to lessen the weight when it lands

[@shoresy6927]

I wish he did a multiplayer using these weird designs haha.

[@daetoyinzen5983]

A race with this tank would be awesome

[@jaxsonsimpson-harris3113]

I think this would be a cool battle evolution build, would love to see you and the others fight in these.

[@blakes3785]

I built a turnip head for a weekly challenge a few months ago that worked like this, it used angle sensors and helicopter engines to stabilize and had a slide formats lean and a ton of suspension It balanced well but there was a 1/5 chance every hop that its pole that it hopped with would explode

[@mizeress4454]

You should try to do a wall crawler battle on the underside of one of the spacebound planets.

[@DianaTheLance]

I think your viewers would get a lot out of a suspension exploration video. Really get a feel for how the stiffness and damping differ and what the differences are between setting suspension up in series vs in parallel and all that stuff.

[@TheRealKosmicKing]

They 100% need to add blocks that add up to other blocks. I hate not being able to build things how I’d like to because blocks don’t line up

[@AlistairJoy]

The most surprising thing about this video was not seeing him recreate an impossible vehicle, but it was hearing my name at the start of the vid

[@lstchance87]

Crazy space inventions

[@Arno1112]

Hey scrapman, I got a small idea. What if you make the heaviest block possible with weight blocks, similar to the dynamite cube you made, and then try to make a build that can lift it

[@polishane8837]

I love the historical bad ideas recreation series

[@allenforbes8108]

A pad to measure the jump force, then a mini-tank battle.

[@chetlandphier4292]

I think it would be cool to see a battle in these wacky creations

[@cuber9320]

Come on 1M subscribers! See you there.

[@jameskirkland3187]

Need a multiplayer battle of these strange vehicles to find out who has the best bad idea.

[@deithomnitrix]

It's one thing to make a tank but it's something else to a tank hop like lol😂😂. I can't stop laughing 😆 🤣 😂

[@xenogryph7169]

The the one fatal flaw is the the "Tank" would be used on flat level ground. The achilles heel would be hilly land or blast holes unless... It has some sort of spring/piston/reverse magnets, weld glitches, dampener on the foot to accommodate the angle difference and adapt to the different foot angle logic to the angle of the leg(s) to stay vertical?

[@krono6400]

Tbh this tank looks like someone heard a tank being referred to as a mobile bunker and just RAN with it

[@Alphadragon1979]

Now I want to see you and Yzuei make hoping tanks and battle...LOL

[@swisscheese-394]

Scrapman, I feel like you should try building 1 of these 2 "Gyro-Electric Destroyer" 'tank' designs in either Trailmakers or Scrap Mechanic

[@moroblizniak4457]

9:53 WHAAAT?! I DIDNT KNOW THAT!!

[@fredrickbambino]

Day 60 of asking scrapman to battle with flying tanks.

[@Kumogd]

Lol

[@carolusrex7627]

Great idea man :D

[@TheMadderlad]

I’m rooting for you

[@Robonoob_per]

I had an idea. For more that 2 year and he never even achnowledged it

[@JacobLosh]

Those are called planes buddy

[@idioticed4379]

I knew you were gonna do this one eventually

[@SonOfmowgef]

TBF to the person that envisioned this, if you were in a battle and saw this thing coming at you, it would be pretty terrifying.

[@arthuryongxiao7243]

Can you do a community series on titan,Saturn’s largest moon? I suggest you do it as a sequel to the mars series in search of where the Martians who built bases on mars. You can do more research on its somewhat earth like conditions.The reason for it being on Titan is because titan has a subsurface water ocean,a active methane cycle and a large collection of lakes,seas and rivers of hydrocarbons such as methane. Day four of saying this.

[@jo-annierobidoux2870]

Imagine a bipedal mech made from the leg

[@ShawnHCorey]

What if you put suspension on the bottom ring that rests on the ground? Would this reduce the breakage?

[@duner4105]

I've got idea scrapman: (my first btw) What happens if half of very long vechicle is in 1g while second in 0g. Imagine a stick that goes half way trough "forcefield" in Galina station

[@Brick8651]

You and yuizi could do a walking/jumping tanks and maybe hovering tanks as a battle

[@toxicwarcat7739]

Hey scrap man you should do a "walker battle" it would be awesome to see how you guys would get creations to move via walking

[@Tallacus]

Something as crazy as this belongs in Command and Conquer Red Alert, crazy it almost existed IRL

[@user-ul3wn2rc8l]

i kinda want a tutourial for this i love it

[@JoshuaGanoTyraxLightning]

* Mock Evil Wizard Voice * "Tank Treads will always triumph... because single hopping Legs are dumb!" * /Mock Evil Wizard Voice * ;P

[@michback1699]

Awesome Work like Always! How about some Metal Gear Solid Tanks like the Shagohod or Metal Gear Rex? Would like to see you build one of those 😁

[@Hadeks_Marow]

Who else was thinking mini-thrusters or hover-pads to help cushion the landing as to not damage the legs? Put it inside the hollow part to fake it and have it not be noticed. We could even automated the mini thrusters using bottom facing distance censors. Turn off when you a close to the floor. So they only turn on near the height of the jump.

[@embergamedev]

Clever solution with the thrusters. This is the one thing I wish was more like scrap mechanic. I feel like suspension in that game can actually cushion serious blows like this.

[@Hadeks_Marow]

@@embergamedevI have never heard a claim more wrong in my life xD You can't gage "impact force" because vehicles are non-destructive in regards to impact. Only attack and explosion damage has any effect on creations (without mods) in the current build of the game. The only thing suspension does in SM is keep things leveled/less bouncy.

[@RlCHIE]

the title is so amazing im liking it before i even watched it

[@aaliyahfrommiddleschool653]

I've been waiting I love your videos

[@4listor.official]

No way you actually made this video haha thx man for the shoutout

[@felix________________]

I think it would be great if there were procedural angle pieces, similar to the wings in ksp2

[@mrnaris4852]

You should've had the suspention BETWEEN the FOOT and the HINGE instead of having it be in between the hinge and the pistons.

[@HorizonsEdge18]

could probably try to trim down some of the blocks and get a distance censer with a gimbal/thruster on it to dampen the impact of landing

[@RuFFlesGaming]

Multiplayer battle with this tank, do it 😂

[@postscript1561]

I am curious if the piston retracting needed to be set to retract sooner during the landing process.

[@HarryMonroe-zo1nu]

You should make the McDonnel XF 85. It was made to be a plane dropped from a bomber but fought by a trapeze. It was unsafe and had no landing gear. It was developed during the Cold War.

[@HarryMonroe-zo1nu]

It was caught by a trapeze.

[@DanielGonzalez-eu9sb]

Hundreds of thousands of years of Evolution of the wheel just for some genius in the 20th century to do this

[@theldraspneumonoultramicro405]

multiplayer idea: walking tank battle on one of the planets in the space DLC, only 1 weapon and it must be on a 360 degree turning turret. multiplayer idea: flying vehicle battle, but you can only use space DLC parts, no air control parts, only non space parts allowed is the base building blocks.

[@Keegerwocky]

multiplayer battles in 1 legged creations... that could be fun.

[@FX-PR0CESS]

Flip the angle pieces upside down to get the opposite angle. Which is what you where looking for

[@BUCHINABI]

IN FREDRICK-BAMBINO WE TRUST! IN FLYING TANKS YOU SHALL FIGHT!

[@pamelagoncalves4376]

Now you just have to battle with a friend in these

[@mihast3273]

Where us the flying tanks battle guy?? Its almost your dream!

[@KrawllsWorkshopGaming]

This was a very silly design in real life and trailmakers is doing an amazing job at showing us why😂

[@explosioncatsandknives7747]

MOAR please

[@bulletproof1581]

Would you not be able to protect parts from coming off by using shield pieces on the bottom ? or would they just come off on impact ?

[@dragonangl2161]

I wonder, if, following this kind of strategy with the gyros, if the Sidewinder "walking" vehicle from Thunderbirds would be doable.

[@LehanJ.]

i started watching traimakers with scapman i loved it so much i got the game, yes he innspired me to play. But i absolutely love trailmakers becauce i can make my vehicle ideas come to life, alo i have een watching scrapman for a while he has been getting better at building with detail.

[@itswindyyy]

It's been so long since I saw you!

[@dansuemmanuel9859]

Scrapman love the background music 🎶👌

[@mandeefish2]

If you added the canon balls it would of been so much more accurate

[@carolusrex7627]

Yooo the yumpin tank!